Tisvie-regording apparatus



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

G. S. HASKELL.

TIME RECORDING APPARATUS.

Patented Ju ne 2, 1885;.

A WMIQNVENTQR (No Model.) 2 Shets-Sheet 2.

C. S. HASKELL.

TIME RECORDING APPARATUS. No. 319,092. A Patented June 2, 1885.

TI was-ascoecme was Application filed May 23, 1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES HnsKnLL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Apparatus for Registering the Hour of Arrival or Departure of Employs at Factories, Offices, and other Places of Employment, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is the provision of an automatically-operating device which shall be adapted to record both the name of the employ and the hour of his arrival for work. The apparatus is conveniently applied within the case of a clock, and is provided with a scroll of paper or kindred fabrics, upon which the employ upon his arrival writes his name, and with a lever 0r handle which, after writing his name upon the scroll, the employ is required to move, with the result that, through suitable mechanism, the movement of the handle is communicated to a printing or embossing device, so as to effect the re cording of the hour and minute of the throw of the handle in connection with the name written upon the scroll.

The above results I attain by mechanism a convenient form of a preferred embodiment of which is represented in the accompanying drawings, and explained in the following description, the particular subject-matter claimed being hereinafter definitely specified.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevational and partially sectional view of my apparatus, the side of the casing being supposed removed, exhibiting the type-disks and the devices for actuating the printing-mallet and for causing the travel of the scroll of paper.

Fig. 2 is a front elevational view of the same parts, the front face of the inclosingcasing being supposed removed. Fig. 3 is a front elevational View of my apparatus complete, or as it appears when set up for use.- Fig. 4 is a rear elevational view of the same, the back of the casing being broken through, in order to exhibit the ratchet-ed wheel a counterbalanced pivoted pawl, and connecting-bar to lever-escapement. Fig. 5 is a detached elevational detail representing the normal position of the mallet and mallet-carrier, the actuating-bar, and the dog when the above parts PATENT @FFi onning part of Letters Patenthlo. 819,092, dated June 2,

(No model.)

are at rest and before the handle is thrown to start them into action. Fig. 6 is a similar view, indicating the position of parts at the moment when the dog is at thelimit of its upward movement, and at the moment when the spring of the aetuating-barhas caused the engagement of said dog with the notch in the bar. Fig. 7 is a similar view of the same parts, indicating,however, their position when the dog has about half completed its down ward movement under the influence of its spring, and has almost unseated itself from the notch in the bar. Fig. 8 is a similar view of the mallet and mallet-carrier and upper portion of the actuating-bar, representing the position of the said parts when the upward travel of the bar has caused the partial upward movement of the mallet and the partial unseating of the upper extremity of the bar from out the notch in the mallet-carrier. This view represents an action subsequent to that resulting from the position of the same parts represented in Fig. 2. Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8, representing, however, the mallet at the top of its throw and the actuating-bar unseated from its notch in the mallet-carrier, and in the act of moving up to its extreme up permost position, which it is represented as occupying in Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, A represents the inclosingcasing of the apparatus, in the upper portion of which is secured a clock-movement of any preferred description and provided with any preferred motor. A description of this movement, which may be employed in conjunction with a clock face and hands, a, as shown in Fig. 3, is unnecessary in this specification, except in so far as to say that the said movement is provided with a ratcheted wheel, a provided with, for instance, thirty teeth, and connected with theclock-work in such manner as to be caused to make one complete revolution every hour; This rateheted wheel, which is exhibited in Fig. 4, revolves in the direction of the arrow upon it, and in so doing occasions the movement of a counterbalanced pivoted pawl, a towhieh is secured a connecting-bar, a,

which latter at its lower extremity is connected to a r'ockerarm, a", mounted upon a rock-shaft, a which is provided with a lever escapement, a, the pallets of which alternately, in the throw of said escapement under the influence of the rocker-arm, connecting-bar, and counterbalanced pawl, engage the teeth of a rateheted escapement-wheel, 13, supported upon an arbor, b, and so connected with a clockwork or other train of gearing, O, actuated by a coiled band-spring, e, or other motor, as to revolve once in an hour. The arbor b, which is journaled within the casing in a position at right angles to its face, is also equipped with a minute-disk, D, the periphery of which is provided with numeral-types in a I 5 series of one to sixty. The operation of the lever-escapement permits of the actuation of the train of gearing C under the influence of its motive spring 0 to occasion the rotation of the escapement-wheel and minute-disk once 26 in an hour. Parallel with the minute-disk is is an houndisk, being a disk of the same diameter as theminutedisk, the peripheral face of which is also provided with numeral-types, numbered successively from one to twentyfour. The hour-disk is mounted upon an arbor, e, and so connected with the train as to be revolved ahead one peripheral space or number at the commencement of each hour.

Further description of the train of gearing 30 G is unnecessary to the comprehension of my invention, especially in view of the fact that any of the well-known forms of clock-work gearings may be employed to occasion the actuation of the minute-disk and hour-disk 3 5 to their respective predetermined rotations.

The disks D and E are simply printingdisks, and it is obvious that if a scroll of pa per or other prepared materialbe pressed against a given point in the periphery of the above disks simultaneously, and a printingribbon be interposed, the imprint of the numerals presenting at the points of contact will be impressed upon the scroll.

F is a scroll of paper, which is wound upon a papcr-barrel, f, housed in the casing, with its shaft parallel with the face thereof, in such manner that the scroll can be unwound from the barrel in the direction of the arrow in Fig. 1 on the barrel, and led upward parallel with and behind the face of the casing across what I term a writing-board, G, which latter is supported in the casing to the rear of a slot, a formed in the face of the casing.

The paper is led over the upper edge of the writing-board, and backward about a directing-roll, a and downward, and then about a winding-drum, H, which is mounted upon a shaft, h, and adapted to be actuated as here inafter set forth.

I is a windingshaft journaled in the casing, upon which is wound a printing-ribbon, J, which is carried forward 011 top of the scroll of paper, and immediately beneath the lowermost portions of the minute and hour disks, and is secured by a suitable fastening, j, within the casing. It is obvious that if the scroll of paper at apoint beneath the disks be pressed upward against the disks the numeral-types on the respective disks presenting at the lowermost points of their peripheries will be caused to leave their impress upon the scroll of paper by the action of the printingribbon in a manner well known.

The devices by which I automatically ac complish this printing are the following:

K is a handle mounted exterior to the side of the casing upon a handle shaft, 7.", journaled in axial alignment with the shaft h of the winding-drum, and L is a dog mounted upon the inner extremity of the handle-shaft 7c face to face with the rateheted disk M. This dog is slightly angular at its front extremity, and at its rear extremityis provided with a dogpawl, Z, which depends in such po sition as to be in engagement with the teeth of the rateheted disk M.

A spiral spring, M, connected at one er:- tremity with the casing at a point above the dog, is at its lower extremity connected with the dog, so that its ordinary tendency is to keep the dog in contact with the stop Z Fig. 1, fixed to the casing.

N is a printing-mallet connected with a mat let-carrier, n, pivoted within the casing. The mallet-carrier is provided with a notch M, for the upper extremity of the mallet-actuat ing bar.

I? is the mallet-actuating bar, it being a rod housed in bearings Q Q, provided near its lower extremity with a notch, p, and also provided with a stop-pin, p adapted to engage beneath the bearing Q.

R is a spiral spring connected with the upper bearing of the actuating-bar, or the other fixed point of connection, and connected also with the actuating-bar, the said spring being in i s said connection suspended at an angle such as to cause the spring to act upon the actuating-bar in two directions. In the normal set of the devices the bar occupies the position represented in Fig. 5 with respect to the notch a in the mallet-carrier, while the dog occupies the position represented in said Fig. 5 with respect to the notch p in said actuating-bar. In this position of parts the mallet is down against a stoppin, O, and the forward extremity of the dog is also down against its stop-pin P, as represented in Figs. 1 and 5.

The operation of the mallet or the stroke of L the same for the purpose of imprinting the types upon the type-disks upon the scroll of paper is occasioned by the rearward throw of the handle K, which the workman is directed to make upon his arrival at the workshop, and I after he has first written his name upon that portion of the scroll which presents through the slot in the front of the casing. After writing the name the throw of the handle occasions the throw of the dog from the position which it is represented as occupying in Fig. 5 up to that shown in Fig. 6, a movementwhich permits the spiral spring connected with the actuating-bar to throw the notch in said bar into ICO engagement with the dog, as shown in said Fig. 6, and which also occasions the extension of the spiral spring connected with the dog, and, through the pawl upon the dog and the ratcheted disk on the shaft of the windingdrnm, causes such sufficient rotation of said windingdrum as will draw that portion of the scroll of paper which has the name written upon it from its position abreast the slot a in the easing to aposition beneath the type-disks. The release of the handle will then permit the spring M, connected to the dog, to contract and deflect the dog, the pawl of which slips over the ratcheted disk, so as to be without influence upon the winding-drum, the deflection of which dog is accompanied by the downward throwing of the actuating-bar and the extension of the spring R, connected therewith, until such moment as the continued rotation of the dog has caused its unseating from out the notch 19 in the actuating-bar, as shown in Figs. 7 and 5, whereupon the bar, which in its downward movement has become, by reason also of the influence of its spring R, engaged as to its upper extremity with the notch a in the mallet-carrier, is under the influence of its said spring R caused to fly rapidly up and throw the mallet-carrier and mallet up, so as to not only occasion the printing of the paper with the numbers presenting upon the disks at points abreast the name written upon the scroll,whieh numbers record the then time of day, but also to occasion the unshipping of the upper extremity of the actuating-bar from the notch in the mallet-carrier, by reason of the altered position of said mallet-carrier, which necessarily brings to pass such result, and which will be understood by a reference to Figs. 8, 9, and 5.

It will now be understood in what manner the spiral R, connected with the mallet-actuating bar, and which is of course of less energy than the spiral M, connected with the dog, operates in the first instance to draw the actuating-bar in such direction as to cause the engagement of its notch with the dog, and in the second instance to cause in the downward movement of the bar the engagement of its upper extremity within the notch in the mallet-carrier.

The play of the upper extremity of the mallet-actuated bar is permitted by providing the upper bearing, Q, with a slotted opening, (1. It is obvious that if the printing-ribbon be dispensed with the mallet will cause the embossing of the scroll by the types upon the disks.

The above contrivances for actuating the mallet and shifting the scroll of paper are those which I find it most convenient to employ. It is obvious, however, that a skillful mechanic could readily substitute other con trivances which would be equally well operative to the same result. Thus, for instance, instead of the handle, a pushing or pulling button might be substituted and a lever and link connection be employed to effectuate the movement of the mallet and the travel of the scroll.

I am aware that I am not the first to produce a time-registering clock in which a scroll of paper, adapted to have movement with respect to printing timedisks, is controlled by the insertion and withdrawal of a removable key bearing a type by which a particular person may be designated, to receive both the impress of the type of a particular key and that of the timemarks of the disks. I am also aware that I am not the first to produce a telltale clock in which a scroll of paper, adapted to have movement with respect to printing time-disks, is controlled by the throw of a lever or'handle to receive the impress of the time-marks of the disks so as to receive a record of the time of the movement of the handle. I am, moreover, aware that a writing disk or dial provided with radial writingspaces, respectively marked with figures to illdicate hours and fractions of hours, has been placed within a box provided with a lid having a radial slot, and so connected with an illelosed clockwork as to be revolved to successively prt sent, to be written upon through the slot of the lid, that particular radial writingspace which is marked with the figures to indicate the then time of day, and to no one of the above contrivances do I lay claim; but the gist of my invention, broadly considered, resides in the construction of a time-registering apparatus in which a cloclccase or inclosed casing is provided with a slot or opening through which a portion of a lengthy scroll of paper presents in such manner that said scroll can be written upon through the slot, and in the provision, in connection with a casing of the above constructiomof suitably-actuated automatically-moving timedisks, and of suitable mechanism under the control of a handle or the like to be operated, after the name has been written, by the person writing the name for not only occasioning the advance of the scroll after it has been written upon, but for recording by impress from the time-disks in connection with the written name the time when the name was written, or, what amounts to the same, the time when the scroll with the name written upon it was advanced.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a time-registering apparatus, the combination of a movable strip or scroll of paper or kindred fabric,type-carrying disks or printing or embossing contrivances, suitable motive mechanism for actuating said disks to predetermined rotation, suitable means for at will pressing the strip of paper against the printing-disks, a casing inclosing the said several above-named instrumentalities, and having a slot or opening, through which the strip of paper presents in such manner that a name can be written upon it, and suitable actuating mechanism for not only advancing the strip of paper a given distance, but for operating the mechanism which occasions the printing or embossing of the paper by the type-disks, and a handle or kindred eontriva-nce for operating said actuating mechanism, substantially as set forth.

2. In a time-registering apparatus, the combination of an inelosingcasing provided with a slot or other opening through it, a disk pro vided with types to designate the minutes in an hour, a disk provided with types to designate the hoursin a day, suitable motive devices for revolving the minute-disk once in an hour and the hour-disk once in twenty-four hours, a scroll of paper mounted so as to not only travel in such manner as to present it self with respect to the slot in the casing, but beneath and in line to be acted upon by the hour and minute disks, a printinga'ibbon or kindred inking instrumentality interposed be tween the disks and the paper, a mallet adapted to make contact between the paper, the printing-ribbon, and the disks, suitable means for actuating the hammer to its throw and the scroll of paper to a predetermined advance movement, and a handle or kindred device for setting into action the said actuating mechanism, substantially as described.

3., In combination, the hour and the minute disks, the scroll of paper, the printingmibbon, the mallet, the actuating bar, the dog, the winding-drum, the ratcheted disk connected with said winding drum, and a handle for operating the dog, substantially as described.

As a device for operating the printingmallet in an apparatus of the class above recited, the combination of the mallet-carrier, constructed as described, the mallet-actuating bar controlled by a spring and provided with a notch near its lower extremity, the spiral spring of the dog, and the handle upon the shalt ot' the dog, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination, to l'orm a contrivance for operating the scroll of paper in an apparatus of the class above recited, of the wind ing-drum, the ratcheted disk on the shaft of said drum, the dog provided with a pawl adapted to engage with the ratcheted disk, the spring for the dog, and the handle upon the shaft of said dog, substantially as described.

(3. The combination, to form a device for both operating the printing-mallet and the scroll of paper, of the mallet-carrier, constructed as described, the malletactuating bar controlled by spring and provided near its inner extremity with a notch, the dog provided with the pawl, the spring for controlling the dog, the handle mounted upon the shalt ol' the dog, the winding-drum, and the ratcheted disk upon the shalt of said winding-drum, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto si ned my name this 17th day of May, A. D. 188*.

CHARLES HASKELL.

In presence ol'- J; BONSALL TAYLOR, W. U. STRAWBRIDGE. 

